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San Franctaco and Hew To Call The NEWS-STAR ar MORNING WORLD By Telephone AH (Dally axeeot Sunday) Aft'r 7 4804 B-tsiresa Offlra or 4H03 Editorial Boom Mail Room Mau agin8 Editor The Monroe News-Star is an independent newspaper. It prints tne news impartially. It supports .4 4 VM to be riaht It opposes what it be- what it bell ves to be right It opposes Ueves to be wrong, without regard to party politics. On The Temptation To Talk We may not have enough planes, tanks, or ships, but there's one thing we've plenty of, ba-a-aby, and talk. Shortage of tin, shortage of rubber, shortage of scrap, but a tremendous surplus of verbiage.

Words, words, words! Words are good things in their places, especially if they be the right words. We deal in words ourselves. But after all, that's our business, and have nothing more important to do. As much cannot be said for members of the cabinet and the chairmen of important congressional committees. They are presumed to have something much more important to do.

When their words, in addition to being gratuitous are definitely harmful, one wonders it might not be a good time to start rationing. Within 48 hours recently, Chairman Connally of tne foreign relations committee and Secretary of the Jimmie Fidler EVERY TIME YOU BUY A BOND THE PHONE BOOTH HOLLYWOOD, Jan. new kind of motion picture history is now being made-a history having nothing to do with war effort, epic producing and ordinary I refer to the battle between two sisters. Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, for the academy performance" award, for 1941s prime acting achievement by a woman. Joan is competing with her magnificent portrayal the now current claim rests upon her equally stirring performance in Back the Of course, it is very possible that neither young actress will win the high honor, but somehow, I think there is more than an even chance that one or the other will triumph.

On what do I base this opinion? On the fact that the competition between two sisters has focused attention on Missea Fontaine and de Havilland, Because of this, the performances of other stars, which may be every bit as brilliant, are dimmed. Granting that Screen Actors Guild members, when they ballot to elect do so honestly and to the best of their judgment, the element enters into voting. For example, Bette Davis, who should have won an award for her unforgettable por- travai in Human but didn't, did win the following year with a much less impressive piece of Chapter 34 Another Corpse by Phoebe Atwood Taylor some nighly important informs tion for Asey said as he go nut of the car, you speal ORACE kept watchin the Jennie did murmur Asey said, after your havin' phoned fog hi Cummings acting. That "human element" is now working for Joan ar.d Olivia. Meanwhile, it must be a strain on relations between the two as great a strain as for two sisters to and want the same man.

An academy award, at least at the present, is that important! What's news: Problem: Lana Turner ia wearing baguette diamond cross from Tommy Dorsey, but their romance is balked by the fact that he's on the road most of the time with his band. Sick list: Mrs. Jimmy Durante is very ill Oomph Many screen stars (Donald Crisp was first) are donating blood to the Red Cross (imagine some buck private running around with a pint of Ann Love capers: Phyllis Ruths sudden yen for Richard Denning has left Agent Joe Rivkin prnctically on the church steps. Run down: Dorothy Lamour will go from the president's ball in Washington to Arizona for a needed rest. The law: Bruce Cabot, born in Eddy county, New Mexico, has been appointed a member of the famed Eddy county sheriffs deputies, a group limited to 25, highly regarded in the Navy Frank Knox sounded off in speeches and state- Southwest.

She slus: Ann Sothern is off to Sun which caused misunderstandings and ill feeling ley for snow sports. Foiled: Claudette Colbert paid i 1 A fram'a down about halt his din- ner, he went out to his ca. an up at three thi drove away. Miss Olive an Bram and do vou realize it i Reid finished their meals, an then B0W practically three clock to made off in her car, toward morrow morning? When she maue break their necks to Provincetown, an Bram Reid lU Wlth vital inforl des. made a phone call, an then he it seems you might went of! in his car toward Quisset!" think I see what you and supply you with vital inforv tion.

seems you on You mean, Doc, you found Asey demanded. A1 mean Whq said' anything about And- Cummings helc, rson think I see wn Cumminp Mrs. Clutterfield said. My. my, ji d(jor Mrs ciut-f rather provoking.

terfield and informed Asey in sort of sums it up, Asey whisper that the woman ought tcF1 sa5d A hor diet m. haven vou Mrs. Clutterfield clucked her founa her? Finding tongue and said she personally department look, felt this whole affair was harder. I ve gQt tQ you is about much harder, than any mystery xhe tool marks on the cartoon ever seen. rifling of a bum fi that still see why Horace wo we found with the girl mos' was here," she added.

appears tjnn match those on the as if they had a date, doesn it billed her. Hear What do you make of that, Mr -Honest? I Cummings said, is all speculatin Asey interest you to hear1 said, I think that Ann Joyce gun wanted the middle-aged in bought Cummings the play Mrs. Hingham told I id about. Now, Mrs. Hingham said the gun with and Hanson Cott that Horace Bram Reid had her with it she necj lei.

been presumably about jn a nr a stormy the of that part. If Bram she a imitt- the gun was ut the fancy 54 Jt uh terview, she a Reid wanted Ann to have it, hers, and hardly be no argument caSf, lt in jt 0n thejo So vou can figger that ca v. think she could do it, lioracc thought she could. drawer and someone must have Mrs. Clutterfield Ga rits fr hi 'pjUH! What said.

do go on, Mr. Mayo. This is fascinating, listening to you! I feel like Dr. Asey swallowed. ne said, Horace acks Miss Olive to dinner meet Bram Reid I wonder.

Gun For Horace in Asey tet i hr cj, to NXA I abroad. In neither case, as far as we can see, was com ment absolutely required. If Secretary Knox wall give us a victorious navy, the country will be eternally grateful to him. It is quite enough of a job for a man's full time. General policies of grand strategy can be announced from tune to time as required, by those who make them; speeches are a dime a dozen.

Senator Connally will learn, perhaps ia learning now, that foreign relations are not well conducted by offhand nifties whipped up to please casual interviewers. Is it not enough of a job to win a war? Can men charged with responsibility in the war effort time to go gadding about the country making speeches to every hall-fuli of luncheon guests who send them a telegram" Does every passing event call for comment from any official who is asked for Is not the collective national supply of verbiage getting out of proportion to the amount of action? It is true that the people need to be informed of the purposes, and as far as military necessity permits, cf the plans and activities of their government. It is true that discussion and criticism axe proper. But the national moraie does not depend on a continual st eam of talk like a boiler with a stoker underneath. Confidence in officials and in the government will be at least as great if it is known that they are working hard and silently at their jobs as it will if they are making speeches and issuing statements.

It goes right down to the most ordinary of us. The job is here to do. We know what it is and wnat it means. It be speeded up tnd it may be retarded by continually talking aboul it. Less valk; more action.

Fewer words; more bullets. $10,00) of her own dough for Mildred because she wanted to appear in it; she sold the book to now Norma Shearer will probably do it. Lucky kid: Johnny 18-month-old son will be the lone on the set when Ringling Brothers circus is used for scenes in Against the Washington Daybook By Jack Stinnett army generally of their conspiracies. and approved their execution. Certainly the magnificent Russian army morale to date indicates confidence in its present leaders.

Further, the Russian purges were carried out in peacetime. The Nazi Radio now, if that be how it happened that Ann got Miss clothes0 They a. her to dinner to meet Bram on one hand, then in the next breath, thev beg her to lend Ann an outfit of her old feeble. Mrs, terfield! I just begin to catch on! Miss Oilve was to he p. Get it? but do go on! Its frightfully exciting! How could Miss Olive Not that she wouldn guns foi husband was dra! of a gun that gen says thrv perhaps had a gl dcrstanc Horace Did i xplain for her l.

shoo tingi uh which end mi to ol effect -rare hr Doane p-ITl- he nal the gun Vlrt in. his t( rn ft I i itti itti" I i me about after fc I un- jua Asey said. 1 all retired Laugh of the week. This is a difficult story to write, but if I can explain it to you so you can repeat it as Bing Crosby told it to me, you may have your fun telling it with proper sound effects. It starts with the question; is a water faucet a big When the fellow to whom you address the query can think of no answer, you reply; it can't sniff (noise of drawing in air through the nostrils, as when you have a cold).

WASHINGTON Most engrossing generals were busted in face of ai subject of discussion in official and aggressive enemy Confidential communiques to: Ted (The Merry Macs) McMichaeT: Swell idea, equipping your car with a burglar alarm that goes off if try to sti al ycur res, All producers: Why not buy the New York play. Junior for Jane Withers; play and star would fit together like pork and beans Charles (book publisher) Palmer: Your idea is good, about opening the old With the back-lot sets to the public at a small charge, proceeds to go to defense. Otto Kruger: It was migh'y kind of you, sir. to drive 200 miles to get your maid, on three-day vacation, and see her safely aboard tram to visit her unexpectedly ill mother. (Distributed by The McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) unofficial Washington right now is: cooking in the Nazi high command! Finally, men who know armies say army grapevine carries the truth about any development down to the lowest ranks.

The German army rank Discounting most of it as unin- and file knows by now that capable formed, wishful thinking, the fact re- generals they respected and followed mains that officials most often right to great victories were unjustly ousted in their past predictions are privately because they carry out im- on record that the resignations, possible tasks Hitler assigned them nesses and dismissals currently afflicting the general staff are rumblings of a distant earthquake. over their protests. Private Hans and Corporal Willie in the rear ranks of the wehrmacht In short, A. Hitler is having his1 going to be bucked up by that knowledge, and it'll weigh even more still in troubles, but plenty. The list of German generals heavily on the gold braid since the wehrmacht began its ad- danger of Hitlers vance toward Berlin in Russia includes men rated by professional sol Those tantrums of Hitler by the way, may be expected to increase Our Children ANGELO PATRI diers here as tops in the fighting man 1 talked to a famed psychiatrist (who business.

Military scholars have noth- be quoted because a lot of ing but respect for such men as von quacks have rushed into print with Brauchitsch, von Keitel, Guderian and' long-range diagnoses of Hitler) and von Bock. he said it's quite within possibility that the Nazi Mr Big is well on his These observers don't discount un- way to losing his mental marines. confirmed reports of discord in the naval high command as so much su- He explained it this way: Hitler His perhea'ed balloon juice, either. When obviously unstable mentally it was reported that Vice Admiral speeches about his historic mission Karl Doenitz was at odds with Grand reveal paranoic, messianic delusions Admiral Erich Raeder, it confirmed had his way for ten years, and Manhattan By GEORGE TUCKER NEW talk around New York took new turn after the impact of Carole Lombard's dea'h wore off. The crepes suzette patriots suddenly became critical of the prominence given Miss Lombards name over men in uniform.

Many sent indignant telegrams, and more than one well known radio them Cal Tinny and Elmer out loud why an actress should receive top billing o'er men of the United States armed forces who died just as dead when their ship plunged into the side of Tarde Mountain. I do not share this view. To have presented the story in any other way would have beei qu( -tionable journalism. It is taking nothing away from those brave officers and enlisted men to say that Miss Lombard eminently more newsworthy than any single person on the plane She may not have been more valuable to the country, but she certainly reached into more lives than tbination of the others were apt to, and she can be blamed if she represented to millions human personality while her serving largely anonymous figures. aring Miss Lombard's name in the headlines non of personnel was intendent.

This may be mmenta; on modem civilization, but since a dead celebrity been a more valuable property than a dead soldier, whose business You can prove this easny enough by re- that there have been a score of plane in various sections of the country in the last few weeks. Can you ret ember and why, or who died in them? If you you: own fault. This information hrs all been printed in the newspapers. In black and white. It has been printed just as freely and just as lucidly as the of Miss death.

Nobody paid too much attention to those details. We read them and were sorry and straightway fo got them, Wfe said to ourselves, planes are in the air than ever before, so bound to be more It whs only when chance put a woman who v. a civilian as well as an into a doomed ship with a number of fighting men that afterthought-began saying, come she all the fanfare! How ab ut the soldiers who gave their live foi our nae NOBODY LIKES TO ADMIT I A1L1 RE is this, Jerry? The teacher says your papers are so badly written that she is unable to them. What the pen is no good. If only 1 had a new 1 could write as good as anybody.

My old pen work and it always blots and goes crooked informed guesses that all was not pleasure cruise in the Nazi navy. Raeder is not held in very high those delu.Mons fed on themse m- creased his belief in ow'n i- His casual refei enee to his gard by professional sailors. been ner is the tip-off nan for the boss to the point Now he having his own way of political groveling. The steadily de- Some tough Russians are giving the dining effectiveness campaign, and the losses known 1 have been inflicted on German U-bo. strength by British and United fleets in the Atlantic, together ind Jerry got a fine new pen, but the papers as some sort of blowoff was any acaree! a coocre bo wevt Is no a bi when i beud it violei Tile province of Quebec produced barley worth during 1639.

A is plastic lava squeezed through openings in the crust and there hardened. Contrary to popular superstition, frog and toads do not cause warts. bad as before. Then he blamed the paper; and the teadtar gave him special paper. Next he I tne wronc sea, and his was changed.

Then he thought if he had a new teacher that would do the trick. The teacher said, it isn't the pen or the paper or your seat or your teacher or any other cause outside youself. You direct the pen! You use the papai you sit in the seat and you are responsible for at you get from the teacher and from every other experience in your day. a look at yourseif and make some changes in yourself, and see what that will do Jerry is not alone in his idea of excusing himself for his failures and blaming an outside cause Everybody tries to find the cause of failures outside himself. The lame one says, only 1 was not lame I could do all that and and rests there, forgetting the hosts of handicapped people who succeeded gloriously in their chosen fields.

Wearing is a common excuse for shortcomings only I to wear these glasses I'd be captain of the team, but with them on my nose what can 1 another says, foi getting the many many successful people who wear glasses. Social advantages seem so necessary to some young people that, without them, they feel they cannot be expected to get anywhere worth while. If only 1 couid dress hke those others now. If 'inly I had the privilege of knowing those people I could get where I ought to they complain, forgetting the hosts of successful Americans whose social background was the poorest. Never mind what you got, but look keenly at what you have and make the best of it.

Nobody everything Everybody lacks something he would like to have; and you are no exception. Start using what you have even though all you can End for the present is a great hunger and strong determination to satisfy it. That v. ill do for a beginning Never mind about your physical shortcomings. How strong is your spirit? That what counts most A -tout spirit will carry you through grinding poverty, thiough harsh trials, through any difficulty that life cm earth may present.

How can you gam that spirit. Just ing it by cultivating it through thought and ay, relation of its being and its power, by tne live of those whose greatness proved the strength i their souls. How do you suppose Moses crossed the Red sea How do you suppose Lincoln led this country out of ti ibuiation, disorder and disunity into complete unity minent. Apparently Doe which way the wind out from under. messiah an awful pushing around But you can bet that Herr Hitler knows somebody fault, not bis own.

When a Napoleonic complex is frustrated, it always blames sinister outside influences. called delusions of persecution, and is a iogi- blowing, got cal, common progression of paranoia It explains in part the shake-up of lizing WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 Eastern Standard P. Ona Hour for 2 Hra. for Mt, In program a due entirety to by neticorks) 5:45 Dinning Sisters in Song -nbc-red Tom Mix Serial blue-eaat Wayne Van Dyne Scatters ood Baines Serial Captain Indigo From Indiana nbc-red The Vagabond' In S'or lea of Adventure bhie-wen Edwin C. Chicago Les Paul Ti Prayer; News; Dance Music Minutes of 6 Indigo: P.hmnba Dance Orehes.

blue-east "Secret Serial blue-west ia Hopper on Carol Marsh at the 6-30 -Stella Unger on Pour Polka Dot' Program blue Frank Jack Armstrong's 6 Three Sun'. Powell Thomas News Tom Mix In repeat blue-west War and World News of Captain Midnight, F. Easy Aces, Drama Serial bins Amos a-d Fulton Lewis, Jr. A of the Mr. Keen, Dramatic Serial blue Lannv Itoss His That Morgan Present; Ink Dance Ppton To Be Announced (30 mln.) cbs The Lone Ranger 8 00 -Thin Man Quiz Kids and Joe Kelly blue Meet Mr.

Meek In Comedy cbs ('al Tlr.ney Comment on 8 Get It by mb'-east 8 from In Manhattan at Midnight blue Jean Hersholl as Dr. Ranger 8:45 Paiicmg Music Davis and Basin Street (Swine) Pr-d Hour with Gabriel Heatter of Batavia District Attorney To Be Announced In Me -er ar American Melody Glenn Mllier and I Raymond Gram 8 Momer Look, Horace IV Olive Bram Reid are to sit down have their dinner Lone about dessert, say. Miss Olive is to skip out to powder her "She doesn't use any make-up, ever! to skip out An Ann Joyce, dressed like her, is to come back. Now see how that would work out? If Bram Reid didn't catch on right with all them rose-shaded lights in there, I think he have been fooled for a few then Ann had him, see0 That explains why Horace bet he was the one who called an asked for mess beetle! why he was so nervous worried! and ner; lawyer in charming i retired, gentle cracks "Before I vou malign Rankin any you that he bills you sent don beli "He told like a trial job a picture. Your end Rankin has also zning, after a few it, before friend re, Doc, I must tell got any of the im pay for if "I a four one ou, nt "A Another kernel of information held the German high command for failure to be highlv significant is that dis- to take Moscow, a campaign Hitler re- patch from Besancon that 62 Gorman putedly ordered himself.

Further re were shot fc the Russian refusal to re- ver.ses will increase Hitlei need to Spotlight Bam 10 30 Comment Ted Straeter Ted Steele at Dean Pad re Late Var Dance and Dance Orcb. a (30 i Program blue cbs ng in cbs nr nrld War blue tra mbs-baslc Orchestra ir front. It seems somebody to blame, until his accusa- soldi turn to indicate flagging of the fanatic zeal descend to the patently absurd so evident in the early Nazi cam- and they gwe him command of a pa- per doll army in a padded puzzle Capital comment often compares the factory. Russian army purges and the present These are some of the speculations German hou'e-cleaning under Gen- current in Washington today. It safe eralissimo Adolf of the inner voices, to say that all is not well within the Ambassador Joseph book, German high command, that great Mission to makes it clear general staff that performed so bnl- the that the Russian commanders kissed liantiy in times past.

Its already had with a bullet got theirs for good rea- its effect on the German army, which sons such as treason. is certainly not the irresistible force It obvious now that the Red that went into Russia last Junr (3 hr? )- -m 15 Years Ago FUNNY BUSINESS Jan. 28, 1927 Dr. J. Q.

of Monroe, was named chairman of the Louisiana committee of the American College of utheastern section of which closed a sectional meeting at Birmingham Tuesday night. Die meeting was featured by technical addresses by noted men of the profession from all parts of the country. Monday will be the last day for the payment of 1927 state auto licenses tax to avoid paying a 25 per cent penalty in addition to the regular fee. The time limit for securing new license plates will expire January al and the Monroe Automotive License bureau of the st motor vehicle bureau will close at 5 p. m.

on that day, it as announced by D. Doughty, bureau manager. Ann never showed up. an off to try locate Mrs. Clutterfield inquired, Miss Olive now? Furioas Doctor LEAST we made some he said.

know she headed toward Provincetown around seven-thirty. Mrs terfield, go back to the Inn now. 1 still got this yen to mat with Angie aged mother, I want to see Bram Reid But I bet you he know a thing about this 1 bet nobodv let on, when Ann didn't come. An I bet vou Horace knows to think I had that child by the arm let him Back to the Inn. Mrs.

Clutterfield, you needrft spare the horses, this Mrs. face was flushed with triumph when she headed the Porter into the Whale graveled driveway. she said softly, have seen that! My, my Asey returned as she drew the Porter up smoothly by the porte-cochere, died of apoplexy just the othf side of North Quissct. Huh! Just for fun, i take Rankin for a drive tomorrow He relish speed good 1 Lady Boop! I hand it to you the revolution. get a lot I at the Porter track sounds too.

too i ooooh, car, Mrs. Clutterfield pointed. gone and left it out by the turn table again, and Mrs. Donne vi be so nrovoked with him for not putting it into the garage. But I Horace claims so tired when he gets back that simply the thought of the garage doors utter lv exhausts him, and She broke off as Dr.

Cummings stomped down the front steps to the roadster, Mayo, I wish to God fore you go off on junkets have the common decency to tell people where you could be found! Didn't anyone give you my message0 anyone tel you I Mas coming back here with left money to My, took it id. how was in never billed A -ey said, it simply And look, rs chased some- was a prowler, to be a soldier. An A Ts pc Asey to maybe her depart- ngs sau mid Fr gr kitchen with We ply- Cnm- awake. Why Asov said, that' go the feller ght now said. hasn't come Sister Hing- she found terfield said, table.

Those Mr. i minute I tu lo Vi We through Is 11 Mrs Clut- rn by the turn- headlights of wed it up the into the cot tainly that with an hour or anything ply said he not And ne in since, id I askftd to left some get Mm to- Washy nt for Hor- he must be. 11 morning, ft-, that ace, down beside as he said aat tag, same To be continued COOK, OLD INDIAN FIGHTER, EXPIRES men put 5(1 number of E. Neill, former pastor of st Raj tist church in West Monas accepted a call to become of the First Baptist church in February 1. The Ruston has a membership of 800 and es a han Isome new church dialed as one of the best of the Gate, This church en- a rapid grovrth.

AGATE. H. by wild a Jan. 28. 84, survivo wild In He the troops and during jtronimo.

In inder Genei the Battie of ranch v. gist who in musei oe the Capt vercd the also Fort Lara- was the site are paleonto- cl fa re association of West Monroe elected the following officers to serve foi the coming year: J. G. Cobh, president; J. A.

RatnboR, vice-president; Mrs C. C. Be treasurer; Mrs. Effie Pace, secretary The board of directors comprises T. M.

Simonton, O. O. Clark, L. Simmons. Mrs.

C. C. Bell, Mrs. E. Pace, and J.

O- McCormick. Tc The typical navy seaman is biue- t'ved. brown-haired, medium built; ho fi became a cow bo; In the Cook i steers north on the old and in 1877 became a maiktT in the Rockies, helping supp for construction crews of Pacifu railroad. Cook learned the Indian sign Ian guage and for a time headed a specia police force organized by New Mexi I BA BOOS A VAX A (ib built it so he can read the letters from his girt friend in private inches in his stocking feet i weighs 168 pounds and stands 5 feet 10 c0 and Arizm a ranchers to stop i hat oredatiorw of Indian? a nut in Jui SALARIES un. on salaries of rning up to 250 md of 10 per cent were nb.net early to- iiso approved ti and navy.

Colonel Manuel given rank of i hief of the navy, i will ha the.